How to Fill Sorted Data with model Driven Development

Question

Hello
I am using model driven development. I am using getAll in the Fill method. But the results are not returned sorted by some field that I am interested in. How do I tell the Fill to sort it by some field. Is there some annotation that I can provided in the model...
thanks
RK

Answer 1

You should be able to achieve what you want with an explicit criteria filter on your entity.
In the Modeler Design view, select your entity and add a filter. You'll see that there is a an "Order By" field in the Properties view.
Enter the value you want there and then save and redeploy your model. When you don't enter anything in the "Criteria" field, you create a getAll fill.
Here's an example of an entity created with this type of filter; it is sorted by price in ascending order:
<entity name="Product" persistent="true">
  <annotation name="ServerProperties" ServerType="LCDS"/>
  <annotation name="DMS" Table="PRODUCT"/>
  <annotation name="RDS" introspectedColumns="PRODUCTID,DESCRIPTION,PRICE,PRODUCTNAME"/>
  <annotation name="VisualModeler" width="115" height="110" x="364" y="203"/>
  <id name="productid" type="integer">
  <annotation name="DMS" ColumnName="PRODUCTID"/>
  </id>
  <property name="description" type="string" length="255">
  <annotation name="DMS" ColumnName="DESCRIPTION"/>
  </property>
  <property name="price" type="float">
  <annotation name="DMS" ColumnName="PRICE"/>
  </property>
  <property name="productname" type="string" length="255">
  <annotation name="DMS" ColumnName="PRODUCTNAME"/>
  </property>
  <filter name="MyFill" order="price ASC"/>
  </entity>